Colloquia during the Spring 2008 Semester

Optics Building, Rooms 234-237

Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30om

January

8

"GLAST Expectations"
Dr. Roger Blandford, Stanford University.

15

"The Multi-Universe Cosmos - A New cosmological theory of the birth of the cosmos, our universe, and its fate"
Mr. Karel Velan, Velan Inc.

18

SPECIAL SEMINAR:  Talk at 10:30 AM, Refreshments at 10:15 AM, NSSTC room 2096
"Chandra/ACIS Observations of Massive Star Forming Regions"
Dr. Junfeng Wang, Penn State

22

No colloquium

29

"Heliophysics Science and the Moon"
Dr. James Spann, NASA MSFC

31

SPECIAL SEMINAR:  Talk at 2:30 PM, Refreshments at 2:15 PM
"Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays: New Results from the Auger Array"
Dr. Peter Biermann, Max Planck Institute (Bonn)

February

5

"Experimental Studies of Charging of Lunar Dust: Levitation, Adhesion, & Transportation"
Dr. Mian Abbas, NASA MSFC

12

"Quantitative Detection of Proteins Using an Evanescent Based Fiber-Optic Biosensor"
Dr. Rakesh Kapoor, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

19

"Relativistic MHD Simulations of Relativistic Jets"
Dr. Y. Mizuno, MSFC/NSSTC

26

"Electric Redshift and Quasars"
Dr. T. Zhang, Alabama A&M University

28

CONFERENCE: First Annual HEOS Chandra S. Vikram Memorial Lectures
UAH Applied Sciences Building (Shelby Center), 8am - 5 pm
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March

4

"Measuring the Magnetic Field in the Solar Corona"
Dr. Steve Spangler, University of Iowa

11

"Understanding Cometary Atmospheres"
Dr. Donna Pierce, Mississippi State University

18

No colloquium. Spring Break for students.

25

"The FUSE Survey of Diffuse O VI Emission from the Interstellar Medium"
Dr. Van Dixon, Johns Hopkins University

April

1

"The Polar Ultraviolet Imager (UVI): A Dozen Years of Auroral Science"
Dr. Glynn Germany, UAH CSPAR

8

No colloquium. UAH Honors Day.

15

"Nanophotonics: From Photonic Crystals to Plasmonics"
Dr. Lingze Duan, UAH

22

Ex Luna, Scientia!
Dr. Richard Miller, The University of Alabama in Huntsville